"Autumn Mist" by Marina Petro

"Autumn Mist"
24x20 inches
Oil on stretched canvas
$1,500
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Well, am I versatile or what? Is it to my benefit or detriment? I am going to lament again about the criticism I have received because of the many styles and subject matter I choose to paint. But...life and painting is such an adventure...and so many things spark my creative spirit that I just can't help it. So there it is. What do you think?

I finished this painting yesterday. I'm not 100% sure I like the title I've given it. If anyone is up to suggesting another title, I'd love it if you emailed me with your suggestions. If I happen to love a title anyone has suggested more than "Autumn Mist" I will be happy to send you an 8x10 inch print of this painting. If I decide to keep "Autumn Mist" but there's one submission that came close to changing my mind, I'll consider you the winner and send you a print. Someone wins in any case. I'll keep this little contest going until Tuesday, September 4. You can email your suggestions to me from the email link below.

Today's Quotation: "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
-Carl Sagan


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"ANGEL DESCENDING" by Marina Petro

"Angel Descending"
16x20 Double Matted Print
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This has been one of my most popular paintings. The original was sold years ago. Prints and cards have sold in the hundreds since. I've always felt that this particular angel brought blessings with her descent. Truthfully, I never thought it was that great a painting and I've been amazed at it's popularity. My angels seem to just paint themselves and each one is always a surprise. Painting is such a great adventure!

Today's Quotation: "If you bring forth what is within you what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
-Jesus, from The Gnostic Teachings

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"LEMON" by Marina Petro

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"Lemon"
6x8 inches
Oil on Raymar Canvas Panel
$100
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If you have been following my posts you will remember how excited I get when I find a piece of fruit with the leaves still attached. I got lucky again in my local Price Chopper. As I passed the fresh flower counter I noticed a bunch of leaves that were quite different than the ordinary ferns they use for bouquets....lemon leaves! I had some lemons home and here we are with today's painting. I'm happy with the outcome. Hope you enjoy viewing it too.

Today's Quote: "Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here."
-Patty Mitchell


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"THE APPEARANCE" (detail) by Marina Petro

"The Appearance" (detail) by Marina Petro

16x20 matted print available
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This angel was painted a few years ago after I heard a distressing report about the current war.

Today's Quote: "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
-William James



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"THE SECRET PLACE" by Marina Petro

"The Secret Place"
20x24 inches
Oil on Canvas
$700
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Another product from my fertile imagination. It's always intriguing for me when I begin a painting with nothing in mind. It is a discipline to keep my mind free of impressions and just let the 'spirit' move me. I began this painting with Raw Umber, applying paint thinly in darks and lights, keeping my mind clear, until an image emerged that I wanted to work with.

Today's Quote: "Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive resistance, the good news is it means there's tremendous love there too. If you didn't love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn't feel anything. The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference. The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you-and the more gratification you will feel when you finally do it."
-Steven Pressfield
From the book "The War Of Art"


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"PEAR" by Marina Petro

"Pear"
6x8
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
$100
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Just returned from a weekend away so this is a repost. I enjoy painting fruit with patterned fabric backgrounds but it makes it difficult to complete the painting in one day. Haven't been painting this weekend but I've been fantasizing about all the paintings I'd love to paint. Hopefully you will see them soon.

Today's Quotation: "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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"Approaching Eden"

"Approaching Eden"
5x7 inches
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas-painted sides
$100
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This is one of my earlier daily paintings. It might take me a week or so to get back on track and begin photographing and posting new paintings. I will be away this weekend without access to the internet. Funny thing about the daily painting movement. Since I came on board and created this blog (which I am delighted I did) I feel like 'someone is watching'....and I suppose they are. There's a sense of needing to produce a finished painting every day which isn't always possible...lately it's been difficult and I'm doing the best I can. I'm usually working on a larger painting at any given time as well as these baby paintings which I love to do.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy what I am presenting. Approaching Eden was painted from my imagination and I am pleased with it. It flowed beautifully which isn't always the case. From time to time I'll begin a painting and it turns to mud or something I wouldn't want to hang in a room with the lights out.

So now that I've posted I'll get back to working on my next painting.

Today's Quotation: "We have a wonderful world to be inspired by and each new day is like an adventure into the unknown, where things that require a second glance can be captured in time on a canvas for anyone to enjoy forever."
-Louise Corke


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"JOYFUL GARDEN" by Marina Petro

"Joyful Garden"
6x8
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas-painted around all sides
$100
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Well folks, here is another repost. I wasn't able to paint and probably won't be able to tomorrow. Today was one I'd like to forget. I trashed my entire Documents folder which contains EVERYTHING I've done on this computer, including all my paintings, workshops, etc...Fortunately I backed everything up just yesterday to an external hard drive but was only able to retrieve back to June of this year so...another trip to the Apple Computer Store tomorrow to see what they can do for me. Wish me luck...

Joyful Garden was painted spontaneously from my imagination. It flowed so beautifully and was just a pleasure to paint. I hope you enjoy it!

Today's quote: "I close my eyes in order to see..."
-Paul Gauguin


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"THREE PEARS" by Marina Petro

"Three Pears"
6x8 inches
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
$100
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I've posted this painting before but thought I'd post it again today. I've slowed down a bit with the heat wave we've been in. Didn't feel much like photographing anything new. This does seem to be a slow period on all accounts. I'm working hard recreating my new website and hope to have it up and running soon. Most of my artwork will be reflected there, including my paintings from "The Zone" and most of the daily paintings.

I also have a four-week "Master Your Intuition" workshop coming up next month that needs to be promoted so...I'm a busy girl.

Today's Quotation: "To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating, and ravishingly beautiful that it makes it worthwhile to go back into the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime."
-James Elkins


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"LIME POW WOW" by Marina Petro

"Lime Pow Wow"
6x8
Oil on Raymar Canvas Panel
$100
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I love the brilliance of the limes against the deeper red background of the fabric in this painting. Don't they look like they are conferring in the corner? I'm amusing myself with fruit lately...arranging them in various groupings. You won't see them all because I haven't had time to paint them all. When they begin to get soft they serve their primary purpose in life...to be eaten...

Today's quotation is from my fortune cookie in last night's chinese takeout.

Daily Quotation: "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."


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"BREAKING THRU" by Marina Petro

"Breaking Thru"
4x6 inches
Original Oil Painting on Gallery Wrap Canvas
$75
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Another painting brought forth from my imagination. It's dream like quality evokes a state of peace and calm when I view it.

Daily Quotation: "If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot."
-John Bunyan


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"GUARDIAN APPLE" by Marina Petro

"Guardian Apple" Sold
6x8 inches
Oil on Raymar Canvas Panel


Painting is such an adventure. This piece seems to glow with a light from within. Really! I hadn't intended that but I'm happy it happened.
I hope more of my paintings have this quality as I continue to paint. I learn something new with each one.

Stay tuned, I'll be posting the portrait of my granddaughter soon, along with a larger painting of water lillies which is coming along beautifully...at least I think so. Daily painting has been quite a challenge for me but I'm glad I've taken on the commitment.

Daily Quotation: "Art and mind is such a very complex thing, and where an artist thinks off the beaten track, there will be few to follow his line of thought. The comfort of the well worn path is great, but it leads to decline and a muddy, flattened way. It is best for the artist to forget his finished work and live for the future--what he hopes to do. When my time comes to go, I hope there will still be on the easel some unfinished vision, something beyond the everyday life, something that links me with the next great adventure."
-George Graham


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"ANGEL BIRTH" by Marina Petro

'Angel Birth
6x8 Original Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
$100
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This image is also available in a 5x7 greeting card w/envelope on heavyweight deckled edge Strathmore cards for $6.00-includes shipping.
I can also make reproductions in a variety of sizes.

Here is another product of my imagination, or...did you think I painted it from life? I love painting all sorts of subject matter but when something is brought forth that is entirely from my imagination and it turns out to be pleasing to me there's nothing quite like it...I hope you enjoy viewing Angel Birth as much as I did painting it.

Daily Quotation: "People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross


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